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This is my new baby: 15.6" 4K QFHD Matte Display with G-SYNC Technology (3840 x 2160) Guaranteed no dead or partially-lit pixels for first 30 days of purchasing Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M GPU with 8GB GDDR5 Video Memory 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Processor ( 8MB Smart Cache, 3.40GHz) IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU Windows® 10 Home 64-Bit Edition Preinstalled 16GB Dual Channel DDR4 SDRAM at 2133MHz- 2 X 8GB 250GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD (as Storage Drive) 1TB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 M.2 AC Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Module 230W 110V/240V autoswitch AC Adapter I chose this guy as primarily a Linux workstation.  This laptop has a desktop CPU and a mobile Nvidia GPU.  Most importantly, though, the Nvidia chip doesn't use Optimus.  While the newer Nvidia binary blob drivers handle Optimus better (I've had some success with an older Alienware laptop with Optimus.)  But I definitely didn't want to

don't need anything but linux on this guy. deleted intel rst modified bios turned of raid, enabled ahci turned on uefi boot booted usb with xubuntu and installed os to conventional harddrive left ssd empty enabled alternate drivers enable caching on the SSD lvcreate -n CacheMetaLV -L 32M xubuntu-vg /dev/sdb lvcreate -n temp -l 8 xubuntu-vg /dev/sdb lvcreate -n CacheDataLV -l 100%FREE xubuntu-vg /dev/sdb lvremove xubuntu-vg/temp lvconvert --type cache-pool --poolmetadata xubuntu-vg/CacheMetaLV xubuntu-vg/CacheDataLV lvconvert --type cache --cachepool xubuntu-vg/CacheDataLV xubuntu-vg/root lvs -a xubuntu-vg So it turns out that this works fine until you reboot then the rootfs can't be mounted because the init ramdisk lacks some modules These are my reference links: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lvm2/+bug/1423796 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=119644 I deleted the cache and am going to try again. Yep following those in